Tailor s measure



0. UN-REL. TAILOR'S MEASURE.

(No Model.)

Patented Nov. 21, 1 893.

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UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

OASPAR GUNKEL, OF JEFFERSON, IOWVA.

TAILORS MEASURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 509,080, dated November 21, 1893.

Application filed February 8, 1893. Serial No.461,500. (N0 model.)

flexiblemeasure; these two parts are attached .together at or near their mid-length by a pivot a, upon which they may turn relatively to each other. numbered from the center toward each end, and in order that the members may beconveniently read from either side, I number both edges as shown.

a, a, are clamps which may be used to hold the tape to the blade, and prevent the same from dropping down.

0, designates a cross-bar which extends across the blade A, and is rigidly attached thereto. This bar may be thin and flexible in order to conform to the shape of the body,

or it may be stiff and rigid, in which case it is permanently bent into the proper shape.

As represented in the drawing the blade A, is to be applied and used in a horizontal position, and, in order that the parts may be properly adjusted, I provide the bar 0, with a short plumb-line c. 1

E, designates a flexible tape or measure also pivotally connected to the blade, in front of the vertical bar 0, and capable of being turned up into the position shown in broken lines E E to measure around and across the shoulders.

D, designates a bar or standard movably mounted on the blade A, and capable of being adjusted thereon toward and from the In taking a measure it is placed behind the arm as shown, and, in order that it may be used on either side, it is adapted to be removed from one end of the blade Aand applied to the opposite end, the two positions in it may be used being indicated at D The measure B, is graduated and F, is an elastic band or strap applied to the upper ends of the bars (Band D, and extends over the shoulder, its purpose being to support the device while a measure is being taken. The bars may be provided with any suitable means for holding the strap, and roughened or serrated edges will probably be found sufficient.

In using the device the blade A, is placed under the arm with the bar 0, bearing against the front of the shoulder; the standard D is then adjusted to the back of the shoulder,

and the strap F, applied to hold the device in I claim is- 1. A tailors measure comprising a horizontal bar or blade, a flexible scale secured thereto at the center and adapted to pass around the body, and a second scale pivoted thereto at or near the center and adapted to be turned to measure both upward and-downward.

2. A tailors measure comprising horizontal and vertical bars crossing each other and secured together, a flexible scale attached at its center to the horizontal bar and numbered from the center in both directions, a flexible scale attached at one end to the center of the horizontal bar and adapted to be turned on its pivot to measure upward or downward.

3. A tailors scale comprising a horizontal blade and a vertical bar secured thereto at right angles, a horizontal flexible scale attached to the blade and numbered in opposite directions from the point of attachment, a vertical flexible scale adapted to be turned in opposite directions, the movable vertical bar D, and means for supporting the device from the shoulder. V

4. In a tailors measure the combination of the horizontal blade A, the cross-bar secured thereto, the flexible horizontal scale attached to the blade at or near the center and num- In testimony whereof I hereunto set my bered in both directions, the vertical scale hand, this 10th "dayof January, 1893, in the 10 pivtetally attached to the blade and adapted presence of two attesting witnesses. to e turned in opposite directions, the hori- 5 zontally movable barD, adapted to be applied GASPAR GUNKEL' to either end of the blade, and a supporting Witnesses: strap adapted to be attached to the bar D, J NO. B. CLINE, and to the cross-bar O. E. S. YOUNG. 

